Category Archives: Experimental HEP News

This and That

Posted on December 17, 2008 by woit

This week’s Nature has a nice cover story on Lyn Evans, who has been leading the construction of the LHC. The story mentions one of the problems of his high-profile job: Evans has found himself the subject of more than … Continue reading →

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Latest From the LHC

Posted on November 25, 2008 by woit

A talk at CERN today by Jorg Wenninger gives an update on the problems at Sector 34 and more information about what the prospects are for restarting the machine next year. The cause of the accident has been identified as … Continue reading →

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Short Bits

Posted on November 11, 2008 by woit

More about BRST is on its way, but in the meantime a lot of things have accumulated that might be of interest, so I wanted to do a quick posting about these. One of them does have to do with … Continue reading →

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The Circus Begins

Posted on November 2, 2008 by woit

Friday’s arXiv posting of the paper by CDF about the multi-muon anomaly they are seeing has already generated three different conjectural explanations of what physics might be responsible for this. Undoubtedly many, many more are on the way. Some members … Continue reading →

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Discovery of a New Particle?

Posted on October 30, 2008 by woit

Except for the excitement surrounding first beams in the LHC, particle physics has been an all-too-quiet subject recently. It looks like that may be about to change, with a dramatic new result announced by the CDF experiment this evening, in … Continue reading →

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ICHEP 2008

Posted on August 4, 2008 by woit

A major HEP conference, ICHEP 2008, is taking place in Philadelphia at the moment, and many of the talks are already available online here. This is mostly a conference devoted to experimental HEP, and the big news is the joint … Continue reading →

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LHC Update

Posted on July 7, 2008 by woit

Latest press release from CERN about the LHC says first beams “currently scheduled for August”. According to a presentation at the July 2 meeting of the LHC Technical Committee, the latest news is that “circulating beam not before September” (the … Continue reading →

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Supplemental US Science Funding

Posted on June 27, 2008 by woit

The Senate last night agreed to the House version of a bill that adds some supplemental science funding for FY2008, as part of a large “emergency” bill used to fund the the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The DOE Office of … Continue reading →

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P5 Report

Posted on May 29, 2008 by woit

A new P5 report is out, and being discussed at the HEPAP meeting in Washington today. The charge to P5 was to develop tentative 10 year plans for US HEP, under 3 scenarios: Scenario A: funding at the current post-budget … Continue reading →

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News From CERN and Fermilab

Posted on May 23, 2008 by woit

Things have been going quite well recently at the LHC, with cooldown beginning now for the last two sectors of the ring, three sectors cool, and three cooling. The latest cooldown schedule is here, a report yesterday on progress here. … Continue reading →

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